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WEST BROMWICH ALBION ARE TRYING to recover from their relegation from the Barclays Premiership last season, but they can console themselves in the knowledge that they provided what the Fink Tank considers to have been the greatest attack seen in the top division. In 1919-20, the first season after the First World War, they won the league title by scoring a phenomenal 104 goals. No other team that season managed more than 75.

Their leading forward was Fred Morris, who supplied 37 goals in his 39 appearances, which was the most in a top-flight season until Dixie Dean smashed the